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Brian Mason, a top NDP cabinet minister, blasted the United Conservative Party Thursday for snuggling up to Rebel Media. The two main leadership candidates, Brian Jean and Jason Kenney, responded by fleeing Ezra Levant’s alt-right outfit at light speed. At the same time, they reviled Mason for suggesting they had any link at all with […]

American Nazis and white supremacists jabbed their hatred into the heart of America on the weekend. The images of fighting, the torches at night, the horrible photo of bodies flying through the air — they all peeled back history, leaving a country raw and wounded. Personally, I was sickened by the sights, but not entirely […]

City anti-racism activists maintained a two-front presence in Calgary on Saturday — the second in three days of controversial weekend rallies. Gathering at city hall for what was originally intended to be a counter protest to a recently re-scheduled anti-Islam rally, members and allies of Calgary Anti-Fascist Action (Antifa) staged an anti-Islamophobia demonstration meant to […]

Following a controversial “cowboys and Indians”-themed graduation party in Lethbridge, indigenous student Tieja Medicine Crane is speaking out against the “racist” celebration. “My culture isn’t a costume and it’s never going to be,” said Medicine Crane. “I don’t think people understand the extent of what they are doing. They don’t understand the spiritual meaning of war […]

At age 17, Tuan Le was killed with a semi-automatic firearm while sitting in the driver’s seat of a car parked outside a rave in Vancouver. The young gangster’s death sparked retaliation — a member of a rival gang was later shot but not killed in Burnaby — as a violent turf war among Vietnamese thugs escalated. Le had earlier lived in Calgary’s Applewood Park, where he received mentorship and guidance from Hieu Ngo, a social worker who met the young man when he ran a program helping youth who were at risk of becoming criminals.

Two years after being subjected to a racist tirade by an unruly passenger a Calgary cab driver has received an apology. However, the apology to Sardar Qayyum didn’t come from his former passenger but from the RCMP, which reviewed how the verbal assault in November 2013 was handled. A video from the cab’s dashcam that […]

For 60 minutes between a series of white lines painted on a plastic carpet, they’re rivals, pitted against one another for high stakes. They’re also lodge brothers, susceptible to the same frailties, the same dangers. And in that, develop a unique bond.

Keon Raymond plays defence for a living as a linebacker for the Calgary Stampeders. No matter the offensive arsenal, no matter the talent and skill possessed by the other team, Raymond always believes his side can prevail.

Calgary is the third most ethnically diverse city in Canada, but racist attitudes still prevail online, according to a University of Alberta researcher. As part of his Twitter Racism Project, Irfan Chaudhry, 31, a sociology PhD student at U of A, spent last summer tracking racist tweets from the six Canadian cities with the highest reported incidents of hate crime. From June to August, he recorded 62 racist tweets from Calgary.

Andrew Moodie owes someone in Calgary dinner. He’s just not sure who. That’s because the Toronto-based playwright and actor found out about Elijah McCoy, the subject of The Real McCoy, which opens Thursday at the Canmore Opera House at Heritage Park, during one of those post-show meet-and-greets at the playRites Festival (where the artists meet the audience) when Moodie was here doing a show.

Two weeks ago, the American Heart Association released new guidelines for the treatment of high cholesterol. Already, there is controversy about what the guidelines mean. We’ll take a look at some of the key issues.

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